Because Rachel Maddow had gotten Ben Affleck as a guest for her show, and wouldn’t cough him up to Olby, who wanted him for his own show, Olbermann apparently pitched a three-day hissy fit. Substituting for him was David Shuster, who implied that Keith’s absence might be flu-related and opined that KO is a great guy. So, in short, a clusterfark of douchebaggery all around.
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What sounds better: “Earl of Douchester” or “Douche of Earl”?
Try not to let your musical preferences color your choice.
Olby’s assholicity is like the north star in its consistency and dependability. His snarling narcissism is modern liberalism in microcosm.
The weird part of that article is Olbermann being upset with some guy over a girl.
I thought Olbermann played for the other team.
“The source of this story is a liar and those who spread it without seeking confirmation or reputation are beneath contempt.”
Thus being the “worst people in the world!”. I would punch that guy in the face with no second thought. Even at ESPN he was a dullard. A wannabe intellectual in the truest sense.
Why do I need to hear about a nasty, second-rate sportscaster turned no account newscaster who has a vanishingly small audience anyway? His fifteen minutes were up a long time ago.
Awwww. C’mon, cry for me, Keefy.
Sorry, Mark, but it’s just that this petty, superficial jackass and his gay companion animal and Shuster are three of the bags of douche who decided that Carrie Prejean was the worst person in the world for expressing her view.
Obstreperous Infidel, Olbermann did go to Cornell. That means he is smart!
Does Olbermann look rather desperate responding to Coulter?
But his mother died (at some earlier time)!
I gotta start whippin’ that out. It’s been a while.
“How could you make such an unbelievably tactless comment?”
“MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
He was burying his mom who had just died, and taking his nephew out to a baseball game, because it was something he and his mom used to do together. The Ben Affleck thing is totally made up. He and Ben are friends and since Keith and Rachel both get A-list stars on their shows all the time it really doesn’t matter anyway. But his mom dying is real. He even mentioned it on his show.
I guess he gets under the skin of so many Republicans that they just want to believe crazy things about him even if they’re not true. Is it Olbermann Derangement Syndrome?
He was burying his mom who had died two weeks earlier?
Reading is fundamental, try again.
Are you saying they left his mother mouldering for two weeks? Try again.
I guess he gets under the skin of so many Republicans that they just want to believe crazy things about him even if they’re not true. Is it Olbermann Derangement Syndrome?
Actually, it’s because we’re the Worst People in the World, so we don’t have to play fair. It’s really liberating, I tells ya!
Coming from someone who knows firsthand about Derangement Syndrome, I’m surprised you’re not more understanding.
Ben Affleck, A-List Star
A-LIST STAR, BEN AFFLECK
you know who is an A-list star? That Ben Affleck is who.
HEY! What would be great is if we could get one of them A-list starts to come. You are so totally right let’s call BEN AFFLECK!
You’re never gonna believe who we say an In-N-Out. TOTAL A-lister.
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BEN AFFLECK!!!!
ok that’s shameful. my engrish this morning I have no spelling skillz. It’s the smoking what I am not doing which is why I think I don’t do early a.m. commentings so much no mores. Also I’m late for that place I go to during the day with which I am increasingly disenchanted. Today is the day where I sit with boss person and go over my Glowing Evaluation. It’s a damning with great praise type of thing what I have to just endure cause of our dirty socialist recession. I hate today.
Now I’m later for that place I go to during the day. I think I just lost time.
most people who lose a parent say something like, “I’ve just lost a parent and need a few.”
The guy has spread so much dirt, and done so much dirt to so many people he doesnt agree with, that people shelve the empathy reflex and spread stories about the guy.
all you need to know.
Did Keith Obamaman’s mom die of KIDNEY FAILURE??
Nope. Shame.
Happy, if I send you some pretzels or something would that help?
Hey. You know what’s coming up in my garden? Mint. Yep mint.
Mint is incredibly difficult to kill. One of my brothers transplanted mint by breaking off a piece at a friend’s house, driving an hour, then tamping that piece onto the ground. It took root and spread.
And spread.
And spread.
There were parts of our lawn that left a fresh, minty smell after they were mowed. It was surreal.
Right, Rob. I was about to ask Carin if she knew of a way to prevent mint from coming up.
I try to grow it Rob but the heat down here in sw florida kills the hell out of the stuff. damnit.
I have to cut out the snacking because I’ve discovered that unrestrained snacking – even if you do it in a good not-smoking, not paying the new dirty socialist taxes way – has… consequences. Mint! I keep forgetting mint – I’m on a Thai thing and sometimes they say why not throw in some mint if you have some. If you send it to where I can plant it I have those empty thingers I bought on sale at Target last fall and never decided what to do with. They’re filled with potting soil. I’m about to switch to a pasta salad thing I think cause of it’s getting hot. Mint chicken pasta salad with pears and walnuts and rosemary. That sounds good. Or a mojito chicken salad with tequila chili sauce and mint. I just made that up but it sounds plausible I think.
A lot it would be neat to say – this mint is the mint I got from Carin. Proudly is how I would say that. It’s Detroit mint! And then I can give peoples some mint for their very own in the little pots what I got on sale at Target and never decided what to do with. They’re stacked on my dresser where they’ve been for months. I don’t even see them anymore.
Happy send me a secret address to a secret location and I’ll send you some :) Carinrose-at-sbcglobal.net
I always plant my mint where it can really take over and not be a problem. Like a hard-to-grow area surrounded by concrete. I have it on a hill at my new house were it is REALLY hard to get stuff to grow because rain washes stuff away. I need something to grow there, and the roots will prevent erosion.
Plus, I use it a lot. That keeps it in check.
Yes, I’d definitely get some of my Detroit mint. It’s better, for some reason, than what I’ve got out here. So yummy.
I also picked up (at a little local planter place) some chocolate mint. It has a chocolatey smell, and the vine -part has a brown tinge to it.
I used to have some at my Detroit house, then the “Great Sewer Incident of 07” happened. Sigh.
It’s great for Mojitos. Which is a summary drink. So, a good drinking habit can really prevent the mint from becoming a problem.
So, SBP, I would say having a backhoe come in and tear up your garden really takes care of your mint problem.
You beat me to the fix Carin, mojitos and lots of them. That should keep the mint at bay.
Carin, check out this stuff called Corsican mint too. It’s tiny and forms a beautiful carpet of green and smells fabulous (though how useful in cooking and drinking stuffs I don’t know).
Sent, Carin!
yes – if you search mojitos and constrain to this blog somewheres theres very good mojito-making advice. I remember I learned a new word but I forget what it was. Muddle? I think it was muddle. Something like that.
Mint loves it cold and damp, so the upper Midwest, New England, Rocky Mountain states (provided there is water), Pacific Northwest, and Canada are all good mint regions.
South Florida, go with mangos, oranges and basil.
Sdferr – it says there that “Mentha requienii looks great between pavers and stepping-stones, and is one of my favorite herbs to use” so it’s probably tasty.
muddleing and the use of the muddler is the trick to doing a good old fashioned or mojito. And also mint juleps and cosmos.
I’m not certain but I think they may use it as the flavor to make Creme de Minthe, hf. I used to grow it and have tasted it (it’s terrific), the thing is though in my mind more a question of obtaining a sufficient quantity to do a food sort of job.
Olberman is not the only one prone to hissy fits.
i sent my mom to the local mall with a sign taped to her
back that said “shovel ready”
then i called social services and told them
she was demented and they should take her in 4 a little ‘observation’
was that wrong?
hmmm/ i got two weeks off to think about it
OMG, I love it Sdferr!
We’re building new raised beds (for Veggies) 7 (I think) of them 4 feet by 16 with walkways between them. Anyway, I was thinking of eventually getting some flagstone and putting some sort of walkable stuff in-between. That Corsican stuff would be beautiful.
What USDA zone are you in Carin?
The dirty socialist media’s campaign wha tthey have been on the past month opr so top talk up our dismal dirty socialist borrowed-money phony stimulus economy? FAIL.
“we may be in the stage of pre-recovery” is the best spin the DSM can come up with. Hah. Dirty socialist economic policy FAIL is what that means. That’s for people what like their propaganda with bonus lame I think.
I don’t know what’s wrong with the typing or the proof-reading parts of my little brain today. I will make more coffee but I’m on comment restriction I think until this gets resolved.
I’m a 6, Sdferr.
Looks like one of these two, Carin, but which you’ld have to settle.
5b) -15 to -10 F -23.4 to -26.1 C
6a) -10 to -5 F -20.6 to -23.3 C
The tension in advocacy media circles is exciting to see! I hope Olberman dies of kidney failure! gufaw, gufaw!
On the topic of media breakdowns: anyone besides me notice that, every time Nancy Pelosi gets in a pinch, Maureen Dowd drops a stink bomb in the New York Times? She’s right on cue this time…
Her line now is, Dick Cheney left us “less safe.” In the “Cheney Said Pelosi Said” media spectacle, Maureen makes it emphatically clear which side she thinks we all should take.
What a bossy cow.
Sorry, crossed.
If you grow it and it does well, spreading out during the summer, but you might worry about it’s survival over-wintering, I found I could take chunks from the mounds in late summer/early fall with a bulb planting tool and bring it indoors and keep it going thataway.
Huh?
Does Alexrod play for that other team too? Donald Trump pointed out her position on gay marriage was…well exactly the same as David Axelrod’s boss (or is David actually the power behind the throne?).
6a seems more like it.
The question left unasked is why anyone would want that slack-jawed mouth-breather Affleck on his show anyway?
David Shuster is the Worst Person in the World. So are all of you knuckle-dragging mouth-breathing neanderthal troglodytes.
We have a ton of mint on the side of our house in a flower bed…creeping into the lawn. I can’t grow anything else in that bed. There’s no way to get rid of it really. Winter barely touched it here in Ohio. The only time I don’t mind it is when I can run outside and gather some when I’m making mojitos. Then I love it. Cuz it’s for mojitos…and yes, you muddle it.
happy, try to find some thai basil at a garden store. It has a licorice smell and it’s great in many thai dishes. It will like living in your planter with Carin’s mint.
Geez, now I want a drink….
Olby’s a Real Pro. He is a real pro douchenozzle, to be sure.
Jim in KC, Keith Obamaman is known for his man crushes.
To make yourself look smart?
Keith Obamaman believes Janine Garofellow (pun intended) and Ben Affleck are really really smart Americans.
Kind of like Hillary Rodham.
I’ve got some kind of lemony mint thing a friend gave me, and even in my thick nitrogen-free clay soil it’s got to be pulled up constantly.
But what really takes over is this larkspur stuff. Fortunately, it’s a pretty plant and all, but its offspring come up really thick in early spring and choke out everything else. I have to pull it out by the handfuls and still have more than enough.
I’ll take it over anything that spreads through the roots, though. Bindweed comes to mind. If they could cross bindweed with potatoes or squash, you’d end world hunger in a trice.
So, His Assholiness goes and contemplates the foul cesspool that is His Navel for three days (where heve I seen someone disappear for that amount of time before? Hmmm…), and everyone gets their undies in a bunch. I wonder about this.
Axelrod is just mad that Joe Biden gets so much more attention…
1. Comment by Squid on 5/15 @ 8:07 am #
What sounds better: “Earl of Douchester†or “Douche of Earl�
I wanna go with Douche of Earl, for mellifluousness; but the verse can’t be sung that “Nothing can stop” said Earl who keeps tripping over his own feet.
If I can invoke your non-musical bias disclaimer I’ll go with it.
Olbermann is a nonentity. On a nonentity station. The only reason to watch is to see shabby, little ,mediocre life swirl around the drain. He’s one mental breakdown away from a cardboard box in an alley.